The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Other popular items included a handkerchief Lincoln had on the night he was shot, which sold for $826,000, and the earliest known sample of the 16th president’s handwriting, from a notebook in ...

Updated: May 23, 2025 / 02:32 PM CDT CHICAGO (WGN) – A trove of historic artifacts and memorabilia associated with President Abraham Lincoln were auctioned off for nearly $8 million on Wednesday.

Abraham Lincoln's bloodstained gloves from Ford's Theatre sold for $1.52 million at auction. Other items included a handkerchief and a "wanted" poster.

Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction By Associated Press Published May 22, 2025, 7:37 a.m. ET ...

An auction of precious Abraham Lincoln artifacts raised close to $8 million Wednesday, meaning a likely seven-figure windfall for a cash-strapped Springfield foundation that was selling part of ...

A pair of blood-stained gloves that Abraham Lincoln had when he was assassinated was auctioned for $1.51 million. The gloves were on display at Freeman’s | Hindman in West Loop, Chicago, May 15 ...

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln carried the night of his assassination.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...

Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...

More than 80 years after U.S. Army Pvt. James C. Loyd disappeared during a chaotic, nighttime gun battle in Italy, the World War II soldier was set for a solemn burial at Abraham Lincoln National ...